Issue 12 (Winter 2008): Technology and Humanity
Issue 12 (Winter 2008): Technology and Humanity
eSharp's twelfth issue, 'Technology and Humanity', examines
the effects
of scientific innovation and its implications for the individual and
society. The high number and quality of submissions suggests that
technology in its various forms is an increasingly significant site of
investigation for the academic world, and the issue contains articles
from a number of different perspectives: from cyberliterature to the
adoption of technological debate as a power strategy, from issues of
authority in online encyclopedias to the advantages of a virtual, as
opposed to operational, nuclear arsenal for the United Kingdom.
eSharp is proud to present this series of articles demonstrating the broad range of intellectual engagement that the theme of 'Technology and Humanity' provokes across disciplines, with contributing authors from universities in Hungary, the USA and throughout the UK.
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Articles
Articles
| Daniel Ashton | Policy, productivity, passion and piracy: Drawing lines around innovation in a knowledge-based economy | Abstract | 12 - Ashton |
| Alistair Brown | Rereading Posthumanism in The War of the Worlds and Independence Day | Abstract | 12 - Brown |
| David Gill | Reconsidering Virtual Nuclear Arsenals | Abstract | 12 - Gill |
| Eva Giraud | McLibel to Mcspotlight: the impact of information and communications technology upon radical pamphleteering | Abstract | 12 - Giraud |
| Hannah Little | Microfilm, Mormons and the Technology of the Archive | Abstract | 12 - Little |
| Adam Lowe | Holding it Together: Postmodern Modes of Cohesion | Abstract | 12 - Lowe |
| Michael Morrison | Beyond the perils and promise of human enhancement: the social shaping of enhancement technologies | Abstract | 12 - Morrison |
| Alexia Smit | White Men with Scalpels: Technology, bodies and 'male melodrama' in Nip/Tuck | Abstract | 12 - Smit |
| Kathryn Tabb | Authority and Authorship in a 21st-Century Encyclopaedia and a 'Very Mysterious Foundation' | Abstract | 12 - Tabb |
| Zsofia Anna Toth | S1m0ne: Simulacrum and Simulation Incarnated in the Perfection of Humanoid Virtuality | Abstract | 12 -Toth |
| Campbell Wilson | The Ecologist and the Alternative Technology movement, 1970-75: New Environmentalism confronts 'technocracy' | Abstract | 12 - Wilson |